Charles Race, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Alamogordo, NMNPI 1144275959
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,450 of the $3,409 with a category attached, or 71.9%. Stryker accounts for 97.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,098 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $76 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NM, where the typical reported total is $4,280.
Across 33 payments — averaging $103.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Amgen$70
- Radius Health, Inc.$18
- Vericel Corporation$14
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,45072%
- Food & beverage$95928%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 27 | $3,307 |
| Amgen | 4 | $70 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- MAKO$2,414
How this compares
$3,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 107 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Mexico.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 27 | $628 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 59 | $592 |
| Cephalexin | 75 | $480 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 17 | $297 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $285 |
| Gabapentin | 41 | $235 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 51 | $175 |
| Penicillin V Potassium | 34 | $155 |
| Meloxicam | 28 | $91 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Alamogordo
- Deana MercerAlbuquerque$901K
- Dan GuttmanTaos$530K
- David ChafeyAlbuquerque$108K
- Heather MenzerAlbuquerque$61K
- Ernesto Otero LopezAlbuquerque$50K
- Rick GehlertAlbuquerque$46K
- Jeffrey BeckenbaughAlbuquerque$46K
- Luciano RamiresTaos$24K
- Gustavo BarrazuetaCarlsbad$23K
- Nathan HuffRio Rancho$23K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.